9:00 | Dawn Gelino (NExScI) and Chas Beichman (NExScI): Welcome |
TESS | |
9:10 | Andrew Vanderburg (Sagan Fellow, University of Texas, Austin): Early Results from the TESS Mission (keynote) (pdf) |
9:30 | Avi Shporer (Sagan Fellow, MIT): TESS full orbital phase curve of a massive transiting hot Jupiter planet (keynote) (pdf) |
9:50 | Songhu Wang (51 Peg b Fellow, Yale): HD202772A b: the first confirmation of a hot Jupiter discovered by TESS |
10:10 | Johanna Teske (Hubble Fellow, Carnegie Observatories): A Southern Hemisphere RV Follow-up Program for TESS with PFS/Magellan |
10:30 | Morning Break |
Transit Results | |
11:00 | Ben Montet (Sagan Fellow, University of Chicago): Searching for Transiting Planets in NGC 6791 (keynote) (pdf) |
11:20 | Benjamin Pope (Sagan Fellow, New York University): Exoplanet Transits with Next-Generation Radio Telescopes |
11:40 | David Kipping (Sagan Fellow, Columbia): Transiting Exomoons (keynote) (pdf) |
12:00 | Lunch (on own) |
Imaging | |
1:30 | Josh Eisner (Michelson Fellow, University of Arizona): Imaging Protoplanets |
1:50 | Kate Follette (Sagan Fellow, Amherst College): Detecting Accreting Protoplanets with the MagAO Giant Accreting Protoplanet Survey (GAPlanetS) (pptx) (pdf) |
2:10 | Jason Wang (51 Peg b Fellow, Caltech): Capturing Footage of Young Jovian Worlds |
2:30 | Sloane Wiktorowicz (Sagan Fellow, The Aerospace Corporation): Determination of Rocky Exoplanet Surface Properties from Polarimetry |
2:50 | Afternoon Break |
Disks | |
3:20 | Jeffrey Fung (Sagan Fellow, University of California Berkeley): An Update on the Basics of Disk-Planet Interaction |
3:40 | Ian Czekala (NHFP Sagan Fellow, University of California Berkeley): The Alignment of Binary Star Orbits and their Circumbinary Disks |
4:00 | Sivan Ginzburg (51 Peg b Fellow, University of California Berkeley): Gaps in low-viscosity disks |
4:20 | Wladimir Lyra (Sagan Fellow, California State University, Northridge): Planet Signatures in Transition Disks |
4:40 | Kamber Schwarz (NHFP Sagan Fellow, University of Arizona): Primordial C/H Predictions Inside the CO Snowline |
5:00 | Adjourn |
6:00 | Group Dinner at Saladang Garden (please email ellen@ipac.caltech.edu if you would like to attend) |
Dynamics, Host Stars, and Missions | |
9:00 | Daniel Tamayo (NHFP Sagan Fellow, Princeton University): New tools for the dynamical characterization of exoplanet systems |
9:20 | Raphaelle Haywood (Sagan Fellow, Harvard College Observatory): Breaking the Stellar Activity Barrier to Characterising Small Planets (Remote) |
9:40 | Ian Crossfield (Sagan Fellow, MIT): Isotopic Abundances of Cool Dwarfs (Remote) |
10:00 | Rafael Millan Gabet (Michelson Fellow, GMTO): Status of the Giant Magellan Telescope and Prospects for Exoplanet Science |
10:20 | Courtney Dressing (Sagan Fellow, University of California Berkeley): Expanding the Frontiers of Exoplanet Science with the LUVOIR Mission Concept |
10:40 | Morning Break |
11:00 | Career Panel: Karl Stapelfeldt, Kate Follette, Sloane Wiktorowicz, Margaret Moerchen, Gerard Van Belle |
12:15 | Lunch (on own) |
1:45 | Keynote: Linda Spilker (JPL): Surprises in the Saturn System: Cassini Mission Highlights |
Instrumentation | |
2:45 | Sam Halverson (Sagan Fellow, MIT): Hunting for exo-Earths in the optical and near-infrared with a new generation of Doppler spectrometers |
3:05 | Johan Mazoyer (NHFP Sagan Fellow, JPL): Current Limitations and Perspectives for Direct Imaging Instrumentation for Future Space-Based Telescopes |
3:25 | Christian Schwab (Sagan Fellow, Macquarie University): Etalon based wavelength calibrators for extreme-precision Doppler spectrographs |
3:45 | Afternoon Break |
Characterization and Habitability | |
4:10 | Katherine de Kleer (51 Peg b Fellow, Caltech): Broadening the Context for Solar System Science |
4:30 | Thaddeus Komacek (51 Peg b Fellow, University of Chicago): The atmospheric circulation of terrestrial planets over a broad range of planetary parameters |
4:50 | Diana Valencia (Sagan Fellow, University of Toronto): Long Term Climate Stability in Exo-Earths |
5:10 | Dawn Gelino (NExScI): Closing |
5:15 | Adjourn |
(last updated November 19th, 2018 14:37:49)